This Ragù Pasta Sauce uses my father’s secret ingredient that makes all the difference. Plus long, slow cooking to draw out all the flavours of the different meats, vegetables and seasonings. And the bonus is this is a BIG batch Ragù Pasta Sauce so you’ve got lots to freeze for later! PIN NOW TO SAVE…
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Italian Pasta Salad recipe with tuna
This Italian Pasta Salad recipe is simple and delicious. It’s full of all the southern Italian classics of tomatoes, olives and capers. You will love how easy this Italian Pasta Salad recipe is to prepare! PIN IT NOW FOR LATER My Italian Pasta Salad recipe came about after a conversation with my Calabrian cousin. She…
Pasta with Asparagus
Pasta with Asparagus is a very simple pasta recipe with great flavours! This amazing pasta dish comes together in minutes making it a perfect mid week meal. With only 6 ingredients, you’ll have dinner on the table in no time! PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER
How to make homemade pasta with step by step photos
Here’s how to make homemade pasta easily with my step by step photos. Homemade Egg Pasta is a world away from the store bought stuff. With this recipe and these step by step photos, you can be a pasta professional! Why I know how to make homemade egg pasta. Pasta is part of my…
Multi Coloured Pasta
There is pasta and then there is PASTA. This is PASTA. Coloured with vegetable puree. Sliced and rolled until we have striped pasta. I had always wanted to make coloured pasta but I never thought of striped pasta until this. Dulcie from The Taste Trail challenges us at The Daring Kitchen to make our own patterned pasta…
Homemade Orecchiette with Bacon and Broccoli
Orecchiette have been on my list of pasta to make for a long time and this Sunday was the day! At a local restaurant some time ago I had order a dish of spelt orecchiette which were delicious and thinking of the spelt flour I had just purchase, I thought spelt orecchiette were just the…
Hand made Pasta – Garganelli
Here in the southern hemisphere we are finally letting go of the hot summer and approaching cooler months. Though in my part of the world it just means gone is the oppressive humidity of a tropical summer and we welcome the cool, dewy mornings of the dry season that some people call winter. And it was…
Hand made pasta – Busiati
Pasta has always been an integral part of my life. As children, my sister and I always helped with the pasta making and I have endeavoured to always include my children as well. Whether helping to fill the tortellini or ravioli or hanging fettucini to dry over the broomsticks resting on the lounge room chairs or curling nests…
Cheese and Potato Pierogi – A Baker’s Odyssey Personal Challenge #22
I always considered myself a carb freak. Bread with my meals, pasta is my comfort food and potatoes are always on the menu. But I think I have finally met my nemesis! Cheese and Potato Pierogi! Wow, carb overload! Pierogi, like all good food, was the food of Polish peasants. I would imagine the cook of the home…
Tortellini d’ Erbetta
This is a pasta dish I made recently for my Dad’s 80th birthday lunch. It is a regional speciality from his home town of Piacenza, Italy. It highlights the region’s wonderful produce but we can quite successfully reproduce it here in North Queenland, Australia. Tortellini d’Erbetta translates literally to Short Grass Tortellini but of…
